Now Faith for a maths exam!
Rhian Bagley shares God speaking to her in a “Life in the Spirit” meeting helped her pass an exam!
Over the past two years I’ve been working as an English teacher in Rochdale. However, I’ve been working as an unqualified teacher due to the fact that I haven’t been able to pass a maths test as part of my training.
I have spent hours working and developing my maths skills, I got tested for different reasons, diagnosed with Dyscalculus and felt after taking the test probably over a hundred times, that I’d never pass it. This was heartbreaking for me as all I’d ever wanted to do as a career was teach. I love my job and I was getting more and more frustrated that if things continued the way they did I wouldn’t be able to continue to teach.
Usually, under these circumstances, you get five years to pass before you’re made redundant. However, the teaching development agency sent out a letter two months ago informing all Heads that no unqualified teachers would be permitted to continue in their job as of September 08. That meant I had six weeks to pass the tests, otherwise I was out of a job. This obviously worried me and added more pressure to the already horrible situation. I was pleading with God, asking him what I needed to do, why this was continuing to happen to me, yet at the same time, even though it was hard, I knew He was in control. I knew that He had, and has, great plans for me, and I knew that all I had to do was trust in Him.
A few weeks ago, at one of the Life in the Spirit meetings, God clearly spoke to me about my test, all He said was ‘It’s finished’. I held onto that with everything that I had, I confessed it, I believed it.
Last Tuesday I sat my test again. I opened the paper, looked at the questions and thought, wow, this is a hard one. But this time I did something different, I didn’t panic, I didn’t start thinking I’ve failed it again, I whispered, ‘It’s finished’. I held onto that word all the way through my test, when I was done I didn’t feel overly pleased, but I’d done it. Yesterday afternoon I received an email that said I’d passed. God told me it was finished, I believed Him, it happened. Now faith- living and acting.
